[New-Poetry] Books a poet should own...

[Anny Ballardini]

Re: [New-Poetry] Books a poet should own...Yes, yes! 
Both mathematical and philosophical in an alternating phenomenological Calderean or Tinguelyan structure, or both, but always alternating, I think it works better

  From: Elaine Brown 
  Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 11:22 PM


  And read these and other such quotes to him till he starts behaving himself


  On 10/21/06 5:02 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:


    I totally agree Elaine, we should put him in the corner...!


      From:  Elaine Brown <mailto:hawkbrwn at msn.com>   
       
      Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:37  PM
       

      bad bad bob  !


      On 10/21/06 2:13 PM, "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>  wrote:

       


         
         


          Wisdom  & Metaphor
           
          by Jan Zwicky
           
          Gaspereau Press  (Canada)
           
          http://www.gaspereau.com/1894031784.shtml
           
           
           
          A  large compendium of quotes by poets and philosophers and   mathematicians
           
          centering on the topic of metaphor.   Zwicky responds to their  assertions with  answers
           
          of her own. If you can find it, buy her earlier book  _Lyric  Philosophy_, as well. Which 
           
          has even more  illustrations and musical notation than are in this  book. Wisdom  &
           
          Metaphor will remind you of deep beauty of math...which  most of  us lost sight of somewhere 
           
          before our finals  in Algebra II. Two quotes fromt her  book...
           
           
           
          The phenomenological power of  both metaphor and  thisness derives from an awareness of an  extreme tension between being  and time. Thisness is the lyric  comprehension of this tension; an  instant of time opens to embrace  the resonance of all that is; time is  present, but suspended~held in  balance. Metaphor, by contrast, is a from of  domestic understanding:  wholeness overrides morality, but does not erase it.  The distinction  of things remains the foundation of their resonant connexion.  In  metaphor, gestalts glitter: those inflected by being and those inflected  by  time, flashing back and forth over the hinge of what is common.   

          ^Jan Zwicky, Wisdom and Metaphor,  #67

           
           
          To defend poetry  means to defend a fundamental gift of human nature,
           
          that is,  our capacity...to experience astonishment and to stop still   in
           
          that astonishment for an extended moment or  two.
           
           
           
          --Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty,  translated by Clare Cavenaugh
           
           
           
          Anny, that  would be a good one for "Why poetry exists?" quote  category.  
           
           
           
          Finnegan
           

          I agree.  The bullshit component of both is  close to  99%.  

          bad Bob 

           


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